ZigenFund-EnglishTeachersTrainingProgram

ZigenSummer2016Program.docx

Zigen English Teachers Program Schedule for August 2016

9:00 Opening Ceremony
Welcome

Educational Bureau Officials
Manton, Director ZTTP
Wiseman, Asst Director ZTTP
Staff

10:15 Overview of Program

PPT
Pass out the schedule for the first week

10:30 Closing: group sing

o “Do You Speak English?”
o “We Are Teaching in ShiJiazhuang”

10:45 Sign-up and Registration forms

Sign-up for oral interview
Registration/interview forms pass out

11:00-1pm Oral Interviews

Oral interviews

1-2:15 Working LUNCH

Before lunch, Interviewers review results and tentatively assign participants to Group 1 or 2.
During lunch, discussion re: placement and final decisions.
Staff types up the class lists and tapes them on the doors of our classrooms.

2:30 Afternoon Session

Teach “Concentric Circles” & “Who is Like Me?”
Set up student-to-student interviews in the classrooms. Ts brainstorm the questions.

Tentative Academic Schedule for Summer 2016 (subject to change)

Week 1 Day 1	8/5	AM	Introductions Program overview Expectations & Goal Setting What makes a successful language learner? What makes a good teacher? Diagnostic test: placement of teachers based on English proficiency and school placement
		PM	Getting acquainted activities using English o o Games o o Songs
Day 2	8/8	AM	Communicative teaching Using pair and group work (ch. 12) Using visual aids (ch. 7) Using blackboard
		PM	Teacher Talk Asking questions (ch. 2) Eliciting (ch. 14) Using English in the Classroom (ch. 19)
Day 3	8/9	AM	Teaching pronunciation (ch.10) Diagnostic test How sounds are formed Games and activities
		PM	Teaching speaking Error correction (ch. 16) Role plays (ch. 20) Information gap activities Storytelling: oral narratives Asking for and giving directions/instructions
Day 4	8/10	AM	Teaching Listening (ch. 17) Oral dictations Using films Cloze activities w/ music
		PM	Teaching vocabulary (ch. 1)
Day 5	8/11	AM	Communicative activities (ch. 18)
		PM	Games for learning English Songs for learning English
Week 2 Day 1	8/12	AM	Teaching Grammar Presenting structures (ch. 3) Practicing structures (ch 6)
		PM	Communicative activities for teaching grammar Teaching grammar in context
Day 2	8/15	AM	Teaching reading Teaching basic reading (ch. 9) Reading activities (ch. 15)
		PM	Reading activities
Day 3	8/16	AM	Planning a lesson (ch. 8) Scope & sequence of textbooks Using teacher guides w/ textbooks
		PM	Using ppts & realia & other materials
Day 4	8/17	AM	Teaching writing (ch. 13) & error correction
		PM	Model Lessons Self-evaluation
Day 5	8/18	AM	Model Lessons Self-evaluation
		PM	Model Lessons Self-evaluation
Day 6	8/19	AM	My Experience in this training session: reflective practice My Role as a Teacher Trainer: Future Goals

Academic Calendars